Distribution Functions in Physics: Fundamentals

On the Quantum Correction For Thermodynamic Equilibrium

1932 • 8,555 citations

Coherent and Incoherent States of the Radiation Field

1963 • 6,417 citations

Quantum mechanics as a statistical theory

1949 • 2,900 citations

Quantum Statistical Properties of Radiation

1974 • 2,620 citations

Equivalence of Semiclassical and Quantum Mechanical Descriptions of Statistical Light Beams

1963 • 2,516 citations

An Introduction to Relativistic Quantum Field Theory

1962 • 2,190 citations

Der stetige �bergang von der Mikro- zur Makromechanik

1926 • 1,327 citations

On the principles of elementary quantum mechanics

1946 • 1,209 citations

Photon Correlations

1963 • 1,188 citations

Quantenmechanik und Gruppentheorie

1927 • 1,152 citations

Generalized Phase-Space Distribution Functions

1966 • 1,088 citations

Cooperative phenomena in systems far from thermal equilibrium and in nonphysical systems

1975 • 978 citations

The transition state method

1938 • 797 citations

Quantum Theory of an Optical Maser. I. General Theory

1967 • 667 citations

Über das Überschreiten von Potentialschwellen bei chemischen Reaktionen

1932 • 646 citations

Zur Theorie des Austauschproblems und der Remanenzerscheinung der Ferromagnetika

1932 • 577 citations

Quantum collision theory with phase-space distributions

1983 • 446 citations

Quantum Noise. XI. Multitime Correspondence between Quantum and Classical Stochastic Processes

1968 • 436 citations

Laserlight ? first example of a second-order phase transition far away from thermal equilibrium

1970 • 390 citations

Analogy between the Laser Threshold Region and a Second-Order Phase Transition

1970 • 388 citations

Wigner Method in Quantum Statistical Mechanics

1967 • 277 citations

Correlation between Measurements in Quantum Theory

1961 • 257 citations

A New Phase-Space Distribution Function in the Statistical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field

1965 • 249 citations

Perspectives in quantum theory

1971 • 248 citations

Multiatom and transit-time effects on photon-correlation measurements in resonance fluorescence

1978 • 226 citations

Relation between Quantum and Semiclassical Description of Optical Coherence

1965 • 225 citations

The Formulation of Quantum Mechanics in terms of Ensemble in Phase Space

1954 • 178 citations

Quantum-mechanical distribution functions: Conditions for uniqueness

1981 • 172 citations

Phase-Space Formulation of the Dynamics of Canonical Variables

1964 • 152 citations

Quantum noise IX: Quantum Fokker-Planck solution for laser noise

1967 • 152 citations

A non-negative Wigner-type distribution

1976 • 139 citations

Wigner Representation of Quantum Operators and Its Applications to Electrons in a Magnetic Field

1964 • 139 citations

Some properties of a non-negative quantum-mechanical distribution function

1981 • 101 citations

Werner Heisenberg und die Physik unserer Zeit

1961 • 94 citations

Temperature Dependence of Distribution Functions in Quantum Statistical Mechanics

1957 • 90 citations

Coherent-State Representations for the Photon Density Operator

1965 • 87 citations

The Wigner Distribution Function and Second Quantization in Phase Space

1962 • 80 citations

Quasiprobability methods for nonlinear chemical and optical systems

1981 • 79 citations

Liouville dynamics for optimal stochastic phase-space representations of quantum mechanics

1978 • 69 citations

Introduction to quantum optics

1976 • 66 citations

Fluctuation theory in quantum-optical systems

1982 • 58 citations

The Wigner distribution function—50th birthday

1983 • 53 citations

On the Theory of Quantum Corrections to the Equations of State and to the Particle-Distribution Functions

1970 • 51 citations

Covariant equations of motion, for a charged particle with a magnetic dipole moment

1970 • 50 citations

On the Group of Translations and Inversions of Phase Space and the Wigner Functions

1982 • 45 citations

Quantum-Mechanical, Microscopic Brownian Motion

1966 • 41 citations

Magnetic properties of a nearly classical one-component plasma in three or two dimensions

1980 • 30 citations

DETERMINANTS

1980 • 22 citations

Relationships among Generalized Phase-Space Distributions

1969 • 17 citations